Presented by:

Christine Tripp
Christy Munoz
Chelsea
What do these celebrities have in common with 5.7 million other people?
 Bipolar Disorder
A mood disorder involving manic episodes – intense and very disruptive
experiences of heightened mood, possibly alternating with depressive
episodes.

• At least half of all cases

begin before a person
reaches the age of 25
 Manic Episode
Criteria for a manic episode are a distinct period of
abnormally and persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable
mood and abnormally and persistently increased activity or
energy, lasting at least 1 week and present most of the day,
nearly every day (or any duration if hospitalization is
necessary.
Symptoms of a Manic Episode

• Inflated self esteem or grandiose

• Decreased need for sleep
• More talkative than usual
• Flight of ideas or racing thoughts
• Distractibility
• Increase in goal-directed activity or
psychomotor agitation
• Excessive involvement in activities
that have a high potential for painful
consequences (shopping sprees,
sexual indiscretions, etc.)
 Major Depressive Episode
A period in which the individual experiences intense
psychological and physical symptoms accompanying
feelings of overwhelming sadness.
 Categories of bipolar disorder
Bipolar I Bipolar II
• One or more manic episodes • One or more major depressive
with the possibility, although episodes and at least one
not the necessity, of hypomanic episode
experiencing one or more
depressive episodes
Hypomanic episodes have similar
symptoms as manic episodes but last a
shorter duration (< 4 days)
 Clinicians diagnose people as having
rapid cycling if they have four or more
Rapid Cycling episodes within the previous year that
meet the criteria for manic, hypomanic,
or major depressive disorder.

• Antidepressants, in
addition to
hypothyroidism and
disturbed sleep cycles,
can contribute to the
development of rapid
 Treatment

Medications are most common

treatment:
• Lithium (most widely
prescribed)
• Anticonvulsants Electroconvulsive
• Antidepressants therapy (extreme cases)

Cognitive Behavioral
Therapy